Latest / WDYM What Do You Mean? / Top 10 Christmas songs I Enjoy!!! (Seriously)
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- 1:25SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: Hope all is well.
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: Hope all is going good.
- 1:29SPEAKER_00: It is cold outside.
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: If you haven't noticed, or if you live in Ohio, we are in the middle of a blizzard-ish condition going on because there's no snow going, but it's cold.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: I think this morning it said it was negative two.
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- 1:46SPEAKER_00: Let's get these roads going so we get back open and everything.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: But without further ado, we are going straight into the episode.
- 1:52SPEAKER_00: Um last episode where was 10 songs, 10 Christmas songs that I am annoyed with or that annoy me.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: This episode is 10 Christmas songs that I enjoy.
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: So without further ado, we want to get into it.
- 2:05SPEAKER_00: But first, let me let me I will say this.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: There is a warning to this.
- 2:08SPEAKER_00: As we get higher in the list, we might get well, old folks they get long in the tooth with the songs.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: They get, we so long.
- 2:15SPEAKER_00: What does that mean anyway?
- 2:16SPEAKER_00: Long in the tooth.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: What what does that mean?
- 2:19SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't I should look, I should Google that.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: But anyway, we got 10 songs for you.
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: And without further ado, we want to get straight into it.
- 2:25SPEAKER_00: Number 10.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.
- 2:39SPEAKER_07: All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.
- 2:42SPEAKER_07: My two front teeth, my two front teeth.
- 2:47SPEAKER_07: If I could only have my two front teeth, then I could wish you Merry Christmas.
- 2:53SPEAKER_07: It seems so long since I could say.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: He said, Can I say sister sister on the sister?
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: Without the two front teeth, that's impossible.
- 3:07SPEAKER_00: But that was number 10.
- 3:08SPEAKER_00: All I want for Christmas.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: Is my two front teeth.
- 3:13SPEAKER_00: Continuing the countdown is one of my personal favorites.
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: Again, these are all probably my personal, these are all favorites.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: Let's just get that out the way right now.
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: These are all favorites, but these are just you know old school, good old fashioned, not traditional Christmas Christmas music, but heard heard during Christmas time.
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: Number nine, Alvin and the Chipmunks.
- 3:39SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let's sing it now.
- 3:40SPEAKER_02: Okay, Simon.
- 3:41SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 3:42SPEAKER_02: Okay, Theodore.
- 3:43SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 3:44SPEAKER_02: Okay, Alvin.
- 3:46SPEAKER_02: Alvin Alvin! Okay! Christmas, Christmas, fine is near.
- 3:58SPEAKER_02: I'm fine for cheer.
- 4:01SPEAKER_02: We been good for me to love.
- 4:23SPEAKER_00: Love this song.
- 4:24SPEAKER_00: It's great.
- 4:24SPEAKER_00: So you don't need the traditional Christmas songs to enjoy Christmas.
- 4:27SPEAKER_00: Who doesn't like this song from Alvin and Chimels way back in the 1960s, 50s, whenever this cartoon came out?
- 4:34SPEAKER_00: A good song.
- 4:35SPEAKER_00: You don't need to be all serious all the time when it comes to your Christmas song.
- 4:39SPEAKER_00: So that's that's great, right?
- 4:41SPEAKER_00: That is a good song.
- 4:42SPEAKER_00: I don't care what anybody says.
- 4:44SPEAKER_00: Number eight, this one's more of a serious tone uh Christmas song, but one of the greatest versions of Let Us Know.
- 4:51SPEAKER_00: This one's done by Boys to Men featuring one of my favorites of all time, Brian McKnight.
- 5:36SPEAKER_05: It's a joyous thing that the angel sing, cause we're together.
- 5:44SPEAKER_05: We gotta say, can't let it live boys.
- 5:56SPEAKER_00: I would get to the Brian McKnight part, but you know, that's a long, it's a long song.
- 6:00SPEAKER_00: But this is one of the greatest versions of Let Us Know.
- 6:02SPEAKER_00: Boys the Men, Let Us Know.
- 6:04SPEAKER_00: Featuring Brian McKnight.
- 6:05SPEAKER_00: Gotta put that in there.
- 6:06SPEAKER_00: That's my guy.
- 6:07SPEAKER_00: Brian McKnight is my guy.
- 6:09SPEAKER_00: We'll do we'll do me and my sister, we were planning to do an all-time RB list.
- 6:15SPEAKER_00: But we had a we had a um a disagreement on who should be on the list based on principle alone.
- 6:22SPEAKER_00: But hopefully we'll get to that episode soon.
- 6:23SPEAKER_00: Uh back on the list.
- 6:26SPEAKER_00: This one's again not a traditional Christmas song, but nevertheless, a good Christmas song.
- 6:31SPEAKER_00: Now this one's a little, like the old folks say, a little long in the tooth, but it's a funny one.
- 6:35SPEAKER_00: Love it.
- 6:36SPEAKER_00: Adam Sandler, the Hanukkah song.
- 6:38SPEAKER_08: All right, everybody.
- 6:38SPEAKER_08: We're gonna we're gonna sing a song right now that you you might know the words too, so if you want to sing along, that would be fun.
- 6:44SPEAKER_08: Here we go.
- 7:36SPEAKER_13: Instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy when you feel like the only kid in town without a breakfast Here's a list of people who watch your change on easy I think Yamaka.
- 9:00SPEAKER_14: It's time for Hanukkah.
- 9:02SPEAKER_14: They all wanna see how Silver Sonica's whoops.
- 9:06SPEAKER_14: Celebrate Hanukkah.
- 9:09SPEAKER_00: I bet a lot of you haven't even heard of that song yet.
- 9:12SPEAKER_00: Or ever, to be honest with you.
- 9:15SPEAKER_00: Adam Sandler, Hanukkah song, great song.
- 9:17SPEAKER_00: Don't need to See, this is what I like about Christmas.
- 9:20SPEAKER_00: These Christmas songs, they're not traditional.
- 9:22SPEAKER_00: These is they're just fun Christmas songs that are not played all the time.
- 9:28SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of not played all the time, we got the next one, which is a oh just a classic one.
- 9:35SPEAKER_00: So, you know, hey, why not?
- 9:37SPEAKER_00: Next song?
- 9:39SPEAKER_00: Easy jingle bells.
- 9:42SPEAKER_09: Merry Christmas, ladies.
- 9:44SPEAKER_04: Merry Christmas, Mr.
- 9:46SPEAKER_04: Booblay.
- 9:46SPEAKER_09: Are you ready to sing a little jingle bell?
- 9:50SPEAKER_09: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
- 9:54SPEAKER_09: Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
- 9:58SPEAKER_09: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
- 10:02SPEAKER_09: Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
- 10:06SPEAKER_09: Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh.
- 10:10SPEAKER_09: Off the fields we go, laughing all the way, bells on bot.
- 10:15SPEAKER_00: This may be the only traditional one I like.
- 10:17SPEAKER_09: But it's a beat is to ride and sing a slant song tonight.
- 10:22SPEAKER_00: Here you go.
- 10:23SPEAKER_00: Jango bells.
- 10:24SPEAKER_00: That that's that's an easy one.
- 10:25SPEAKER_00: Easy one, right?
- 10:27SPEAKER_00: I love that one.
- 10:28SPEAKER_00: Continuing the list, not stopping, number five, not a traditional one, but a a good one, nevertheless.
- 10:41SPEAKER_01: You're a mean one, Mr.
- 10:44SPEAKER_01: Grinch.
- 10:46SPEAKER_01: You really are a heel.
- 10:50SPEAKER_01: You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr.
- 10:56SPEAKER_01: Grinch.
- 10:58SPEAKER_01: You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel.
- 11:05SPEAKER_00: A greasy black peel.
- 11:12SPEAKER_01: You're a monster, Mr.
- 11:14SPEAKER_01: Grinch.
- 11:16SPEAKER_01: Your heart's an empty hole.
- 11:21SPEAKER_01: Your brain is full of spiders.
- 11:23SPEAKER_01: You've got garlic in your soul, Mr.
- 11:26SPEAKER_01: Grinch.
- 11:29SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole.
- 11:35SPEAKER_01: You're a vile one, Mr.
- 11:38SPEAKER_01: Grinch.
- 11:40SPEAKER_01: You have termites.
- 11:42SPEAKER_00: Those are the fun songs of Christmas.
- 11:44SPEAKER_00: That's these are the ones that I enjoy.
- 11:48SPEAKER_00: A seasick crocodile.
- 11:52SPEAKER_01: Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile.
- 12:00SPEAKER_00: That's number five, uh, the Grinch.
- 12:03SPEAKER_00: Again, one of my favorite ones.
- 12:06SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, this is what I go for.
- 12:08SPEAKER_00: Non-traditional, non-traditional Christmas songs.
- 12:12SPEAKER_00: So that being said, we still got four more on the list.
- 12:16SPEAKER_00: Now, uh after the fourth one, this is where we we start getting a little serious with with lists.
- 12:21SPEAKER_00: But uh, number four.
- 12:23SPEAKER_00: Again, non-traditional, but good.
- 12:50SPEAKER_11: Feliz Navidad, feliz Navidad, feliz Navidad, prospero año y felicidad, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas from the Bible, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas from the Pas.
- 13:30SPEAKER_00: Moving on now, these uh next three, next three, I don't know, something about these next three songs, well, yeah, I'll say these next three songs somehow just get me all emotional and stuff.
- 13:41SPEAKER_00: I don't know why, but uh they do.
- 13:45SPEAKER_00: They do.
- 13:46SPEAKER_00: So number three is done by the great, the great, the great, great Charles.
- 13:56SPEAKER_00: Little drum boy.
- 14:48SPEAKER_03: I am a poor up I have no gift to bring, bore up a poet to give a king smile.
- 15:58SPEAKER_03: I looked over yonder and what did I say?
- 16:01SPEAKER_00: Man, Ray Charles could sing anything and make it sound good.
- 16:06SPEAKER_00: Love the man, love Ray Charles.
- 16:08SPEAKER_00: Man, you guys don't know about Ray Charles, bro.
- 16:12SPEAKER_00: Oh, such a good, such a good version of uh Little Drum Boy.
- 16:16SPEAKER_00: That was number three.
- 16:17SPEAKER_00: Okay, so now we're on our top two.
- 16:20SPEAKER_00: Now, number two, I don't know, man.
- 16:23SPEAKER_00: Something about number two just gets to me on the inside.
- 16:26SPEAKER_00: It makes me feel Jesus somewhere in my bo in my body.
- 16:30SPEAKER_00: And it just makes and the thing about it is when I recorded the sound clip, I didn't even get to the chorus yet.
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: If I would have got to the chorus, this whole song would have played, and then they could have copyrighted sue, you know, sue me for playing the song and saying I don't own the rights, which is kind of obvious because I don't sound like that person.
- 16:47SPEAKER_00: But anyway, number two O Holy Night.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna say Old Holy Night by Melvin Crispell.
- 16:54SPEAKER_00: I think I'm saying his name right, forgive me if I don't.
- 16:56SPEAKER_00: This this version, amazing.
- 17:45SPEAKER_05: And the soul felt the weary world rejoices for understanding glorious morning for long.
- 18:16SPEAKER_05: Oh the angel was in Christ was born Christ was man.
- 18:58SPEAKER_00: My roof is leaking because it has splashed right in my eyes.
- 19:03SPEAKER_00: Woo! That is that is such a good version of a holy night.
- 19:11SPEAKER_00: Man, I go buy it.
- 19:13SPEAKER_00: Go download it on iTunes.
- 19:17SPEAKER_00: I'm done.
- 19:18SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 19:18SPEAKER_00: I'm done.
- 19:19SPEAKER_00: That's a great number two.
- 19:21SPEAKER_00: Great number two.
- 19:23SPEAKER_00: But number one, number one, number one, I don't even this don't even need an introduction.
- 19:31SPEAKER_00: Number one.
- 19:34SPEAKER_00: Oh I'm not I'm not moving my mic this time.
- 19:36SPEAKER_00: Get out your seat! Oh!
- 19:46SPEAKER_04: You better not cry.
- 19:54SPEAKER_04: Stop the club is coming to time.
- 19:57SPEAKER_04: Santa Club If you don't know who it is, it's the jack the five.
- 20:02SPEAKER_00: Santa Claus go to town.
- 20:10SPEAKER_12: Santa Claus come in the town, Santa Claus come in the top.
- 20:17SPEAKER_04: Santa Club the town, duh.
- 20:22SPEAKER_00: Number one song.
- 20:23SPEAKER_00: Santa Claus Come to Town by Jackson Five.
- 20:28SPEAKER_00: It's the best, best Christmas song, hands down.
- 20:33SPEAKER_00: Man.
- 20:34SPEAKER_00: That's it.
- 20:37SPEAKER_00: This is the W we're ending it right here.
- 20:39SPEAKER_00: We're not doing an outro.
- 20:40SPEAKER_00: This is the outro.
- 20:42SPEAKER_00: It's your host, Michael Gillespie of the WDYM.
- 20:47SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, Merry Christmas.
- 20:49SPEAKER_00: I'll see y'all later.
- 20:51SPEAKER_00: Peace out.
- 20:53SPEAKER_00: Girl Scout.
- 21:06SPEAKER_04: Some of the clothes is coming at town.
- 21:09SPEAKER_04: Some clothes is coming.